The YFJ, as a member of the Alliance for the European Year of Volunteering 2011, invites its Memeber Organisations to participate in this initiative and to send an article on how volunteers in your organization are contributing to this work. If this is not the main focus of your work, then you could send an article on the following topics: (a) how your organization will be celebrating 5th December, (b) profiling a volunteer who has made an outstanding contribution, (c) a significant project in which volunteers have been involved.

Your article should be 500 words maximum and if you have any nice photos to accompany the text, please send them too! Please send your text to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. The deadline for sending the articles is 2nd December.

For more information on the International Day of the Volunteer 2009, please visit: http://www.worldvolunteerweb.org/intl-vol-day.html